PREFACE
THE DHARMA AS POETRY
Part One
the drifter
Morning Chill
Frenchman’s Bay
Another Morning Song
prayer flags in winter
Thinking, not thinking
Good News
six wild geese
The Prajnaparamita in Eight Lines
Heart Sutra
beyond sky and no sky
Whitman’s Truth
Nothing Knows
quantum mechanics
A Step Ahead of the Present
Along the Piscataquog
The Missing Monk
through the cracks in my roof
the mind is autumn
Sext
Understanding Tom Bombadil
There Is No Woman
you think your future
Already happened
Part Two
Benediction
The Song That Is Before
Go to the Limit
Just Sitting
If He Is True
Make No Mistake
Just as I Lift
the nothing at the heart of the world
Ho!
the old tree
we are here to transmit virtue
The Congo Women
I Want This Delight for You
When I first saw my face
Simple Prayer
Epitaph
cosmology
Not the Next Moment
When the Poet’s Eyes
I Guess I’m Lucky
Here in the Ati
Dawn on Martha’s Ridge
early spring
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